The Top SQL Server Engine Errors
The SQL Server Support team published the top errors they see in calls. Steve has a few comments on what they're doing to help customers.
2023-03-04
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Editorials
The Struggles to Keep Up with Growing Systems
The growing complexity of environments can cause struggles for many IT professionals. However, we need to ensure we are not making things worse.
2023-03-03
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Stale Data Causes Security Issues
Stale data from Microsoft has led to many systems being more vulnerable than they should have been. There's no excuse for this, from Microsoft or our own organizations.
2023-03-01
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Will ChatGPT Write Our Queries?
ChatGPT is in a lot of media as an artificial intelligence program that might change the world. Will it change the world for developers?
2023-02-27
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Consider Sharing Your Knowledge At User Groups and Conferences
The first time I spoke in front of a group of people over 20 years ago about a programming topic, I was scared to death. I could barely sleep the night before, obsessing about the material and practicing it repeatedly. When I finally did sleep, it felt like minutes before I awoke, and it was […]
2023-02-25
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The Top 5 Technologists
There's a common party question about which 5 people would you invite to a dinner party? Often this is amended to include living or dead people, and it's often interesting to hear people tell you who they'd invite and why. Since most of the people reading this work in technology in some way, I was […]
2023-02-24
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The Danger of Sharing Data
When a company assembles a lot of data to draw conclusions, that's great. However, when that one company sells data to a number of competitors, that can be a problem.
2023-02-22
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2023-02-20
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With the Rise of AI Chat, are Experts Still Needed?
As I looking at the feed of technology stories this week, two things jumped out at me. First, Valentine's day happened to fall on the monthly release day for Microsoft updates and feature previews. If you work with Azure services, specifically in the data platform space, there are a lot of update announcements to work […]
2023-02-18
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Building Recommended Software Practices
Do you have a set of practices for building software in your organization?
2023-02-17
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Are you getting value from your reporting?
By ChrisJenkins
Do you spend so long manipulating your data into something vaguely useful that you...
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Creating JSON II
On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code:
SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( N'City':N'Denver' RETURNING JSON) GOSee possible answers